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Originally posted by Spyder:
Sooo....
You could end up with a race that excelled in propulsion & Missile weapons, but is only average in mining & Energy Weapons. His ships move fast, and he has hellacious missle attacks, but, he has problems with enemies that have lots of missile defense.
I would say that, to achieve that, all tech levels would have to cost the SAME in lab points, no matter how advanced.
Then even if you have lots of regular RP, but only so many lab points, you have to research an advanced tech, or your RPs will be wasted.
Effectively, being limited in lab points is like having a limit on how many projects you can put in the research queue at a time, isn't it?
Another variation on the same theme: let's suppose that, just to be able to put an additional project into the research queue, you'd have to have an dedicated planet put in "research" mode (and it does not contribute to anything else in that mode). To make things worse, you may require that a special expensive facility be present on a planet before it can be
put in such a mode.
This way, you'd really force people to plan ahead on how many tech areas they are going to develop. It wold also make the choice of facilities a much more non-trivial exercise
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Aub